Announcing the companion website for “Reading Rebooted: Glimpsing the Future of Literature in the Digital Age,” an exhibit which offers the opportunity to preview the works selected from twelve digital writers and artists from the United States, Europe, and Australia. Visit Reading Rebooted to learn about the future of literature in the digital age.

The Writing Center at the Punxsutawney campus recently sponsored a poetry slam at which twenty-one students read thirty original poems. An enthusiastic, overflow crowd applauded the poets, whose verses addressed a wide range of topics: love, hate, abuse—and football.

Chauna Craig, English Department, was awarded a full fellowship in fiction writing at the Vermont Studio Center.

Dr. David Schaafsma of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Dr. Randi Dickson of Queens College CUNY, and IUP University Professor Gian Pagnucci of the Department of English will give a readers’ theater performance of The Lives of English Teachers in the HUB Monongahela Room at 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 18, 2009.